Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Hoover invited his old friend Col. Robins, now rich and famed, to lunch at the White House. Reformer Robins missed the meal, sent no explanation. He had last been seen leaving a Manhattan club. President Hoover. spreading his alarm on the front page of the nation's Press, ordered a search by Federal agents. Mrs. Robins feared her husband had been kidnapped by gangsters to avenge his Dry sleuthing in Florida last spring. Acquaintances later reported seeing him hurrying around Chicago. Commented Lemuel Parton, oldtime newsman: "Col. Robins, no longer like Mirabeau, has changed...
Doom? Eugenists view with alarm the world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...
...streets of Kyoto for seven months. Many a German and British Buddhist has gone to Ceylon to practice the faith, apparently more as a system of ethics than anything else. These scattered converts are not inveighed at from Christian pulpits. Last week there was scant cause for Christian alarm in San Francisco's convention. Few Occidental Buddhists went to it. Not present were converts Dwight Goddard of Union Village, Gesford, Va., or Philosophy Professor James Bissett Pratt of Williams College. Nor was Vincent Bendix, famed aviation and automotive man, more than casually interested, despite the fact that...
This arrangement plays into the hands of U. S. foes of the League of Nations and of cancellation. In Congress and out they can be counted on to raise the alarm that the League, of which the U. S. is no member, will stage and supervise the conference at which World pressure will be put on the U. S. virtually to cancel War Debts...
...below street level, can be entered only through a 4-ft. passageway which cuts through a 9-ft. steel cylinder, a turn of which can shut it off. Outer wall below the street is 8½ ft. of steel and concrete. Throughout the building upstairs are secret alarms, turned on by gentle knee or elbow pressure. These are sometimes rung in error, sending 100 ex-Marine guards to the spot on the run with guns ready. Deputy Governor W. Randolph Burgess rang a false alarm by mistake the first day he arrived. Communication is maintained with Governors Island...